Jaguar - finished, Szumo declared winner - Page 19

Lazy_Perfectionist · #**181** July 4th, 2007, 04:44 AM

I had several reasons, some of them even logical. But chief among them is an instinctual animosity towards R'lyeh- not you- just R'lyeh. And a desire to boost my ridiculous gem income even higher by searching the wastes. Though perhaps my income isn't that great so much as I started searching early, even so far as getting my combat pretender to do the same.

But see, this Outrider game hasn't started yet, but me and Jazzepi (r'lyeh) are eying each other already. It's a character flaw- I just have t kill you all.

I also need to consider instituting scout blocking techniques early on- but thats something for a future game.

If I see an easy kill- I doubt it- I'll go for it, but really, I just want to go down to that shoreline, and take those provinces i mentioned. I'm not aiming to take you out, but take that land. That, and beat some Illithid ***.

Starshine_Monarch · #**182** July 4th, 2007, 09:13 AM

Things have been going rather slow with the Bandar. I only have a few independent provinces left but I have been debating on whether to pick a fight with Ermor, or wait until my Non-Aggression treaty with Abysia is up. However, the faith in the true god is spreading quickly and strongly, thanks to the temples I built in like every province of my territory, and the Armies of Bandar Log are stronger than ever now that we have access to crossbows, even as short and lightly armored as those hairy-footed little hoburgs are. Think of a small, but very dense mass of 40-80 crossbow bolts heading right in the direction of your legion of Lava Warrirors or Principes. I am also working up a legion of human Longbows that I found, so I don't have to pay twice as much for the Bandar variety that has lower precision, albeit nicer armor.

Oh, and I finally got my new computer. Cost me like $250 more than I wanted, but I think it was worth it. 19" Widescreen LCD monitor, 2048MB of RAM, 380GB of Hard Drive Space, a 2.5GHz AMD processor and graphics powered by Nvidia. The only thing that could make it better is a big comfy office chair and a nice printer. Of course, my dad still need to see if he can get a wireless router so I can have internet up in my room too.

Lazy_Perfectionist · #**183** July 6th, 2007, 05:11 PM

The battle between me and R'lyeh is vastly amusing.

He tried to assassinate one of my lowly Earth Readers. I handily drove him off with a mere two infantry bodyguards.

I wasn't certain if I could win the battle between me and R'lyeh coming up, but I stacked the odds in my favor. A few mistakes were made on my side, but I came out on top.

I burnt through a LOT of earth gems- and I'm not certain what exactly I got from it. I'm still uncertain what Woodsmen blowpipes do with their paralyzing poison.

The Illithids were rendered somewhat ineffective due to me massively outnumbering them, with my mundane forces, and having a large number of mindless magic beings - aka claymen. Nobody lost any commanders, unfortunately. But they lost 79 mundane units and nine magical. I lost 28 regular units out of 140, and 17 magical beings out of 50. All my magical losses were claymen, which while not damaging, are cheap at one gem apiece.

I'll be rewatching that replay, and trying to press my advantage. But I'll keep some of my secrets to myself. Mostly, I'm fine tuning my buff scripts by figuring exactly how it affects things. I'd be happy to discuss this further, but right now I'll get to the point.

BOOYAH! Star Child assassin - codename envoy? Thanks for the fishsticks, buddy. Your army? Double booyah!

sum1lost · #**184** July 6th, 2007, 06:49 PM

I think I owe Shinyuma a friendly handshake. Although he may have appreciated my message this turn.

Just not the messengers.

llamabeast · #**185** July 6th, 2007, 07:08 PM

I thought we had a non-aggression pact, Pythium? You have shown yourself to be an oathbreaker of a most despicable kind. To the remaining free and non-doomed nations of the world - you would do well not to trust Pythium.

Fair point about the human rights abuses though. But it would have been much better to give the agreed 3 month warning.

sum1lost · #**186** July 6th, 2007, 10:23 PM

I didn't know we had a non-aggression pact. I had not read my statement as a non-aggression pact. The 'Okay' was meant as a recognition of the statement that you would attack me if invaded.

In hindsight, my response was ambiguous enough that I can see how you interpreted it as an NAP, and I apologize for that.

Furthermore, if you wish you can post the full series of pms between the two of us involving that, as I feel that might help demonstrate how the confusion may have arisen.

I can in all honesty say that I did not consider my response to be considered as you considered it. Had I known that you understood it as an acceptance of your offer, I would have treated it as such.

If you wish, I will withdraw my forces for three months.

I would, however, like an apology for the insults.

llamabeast · #**187** July 7th, 2007, 04:59 AM

Fair enough, that was an unfortunate misunderstanding. I suggest we consider it simply as an in-game misunderstanding. Shinuyama will consider Pythium as evil oath-breakers. Pythium will consider Shinuyama to be easily confused human rights abusers, who imagine pacts that never existed and would do better under Pythian rule. Don't worry about waiting, the PM exchange was as you say ambiguous and I put my certainty that we had an NAP down to Shinuyaman easily-confusedness.

I never meant to insult you in the first place (I was careful to call you Pythium). Obviously Shinuyama thinks Pythium's despicable. llamabeast feels only a general friendliness towards sum1won - many apologies if you felt I was getting at you personally. Not intended (nor would I do that kind of thing). No hard feelings on my part at all.

Lazy_Perfectionist · #**188** July 7th, 2007, 06:52 PM

Hostilities with R'lyeh continue unabated. A messenger has been sent to R'lyeh with an offer of truce much less insulting than my first. I'm open to negotiations, but am prepared for the alternative of war.

I'd like to also mention to Man that the presence of all those troops on my border is far from comforting. And I'll state that I do believe in defense in depth. Certainly, my position is exposed and vulnerable, but war with me would gain you less than you would think. My battles with R'lyeh have been fought where I haven't had the advantage of my dominion, and my golem cult.

I will say that I'd understand if they simply happened to gather there, given the 'compactness' of this map, there's hardly anywhere that doesn't border someone. However, the unexplained and unmentioned presence of such a group of units all in one place certainly bodes ill for peace, to put it mildly. Especially with the lack of a NAP between our two nations. The wait for next turn will be a tense one.

Loren · #**189** July 7th, 2007, 08:16 PM

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Lazy_Perfectionist said:
I'd like to also mention to Man that the presence of all those troops on my border is far from comforting. And I'll state that I do believe in defense in depth. Certainly, my position is exposed and vulnerable, but war with me would gain you less than you would think. My battles with R'lyeh have been fought where I haven't had the advantage of my dominion, and my golem cult.

Nothing to worry about--I moved them to my capital several hours ago.

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I will say that I'd understand if they simply happened to gather there, given the 'compactness' of this map, there's hardly anywhere that doesn't border someone. However, the unexplained and unmentioned presence of such a group of units all in one place certainly bodes ill for peace, to put it mildly. Especially with the lack of a NAP between our two nations. The wait for next turn will be a tense one.

They just took #81 last turn. There are only two routes from there to back home in my capital and I routed them the other route from what they took on the way in to pick up the independents I had recruited there. I didn't think of the fact that it was a border province I was routing them through.

Lazy_Perfectionist · #**190** July 7th, 2007, 08:37 PM

Good to hear then, I'm comforted. For your future information, though, those troops are automatically revealed in adjacent provinces. I got a free look at your rather impressive army, no scouts necessary. If secrecy's an issue, you may want to keep that in mind. If you hope to intimidate, keep that in mind. If you figure enough scouts are in your territory that it doesn't matter, never mind.